Large-flowered Bellwort
Uvularia grandiflora
Yellow flowers from April into May, worked by mining bees and long-horned bees. It grows wild in 17 of West Virginia’s 55 counties.
- Light
- Full shade to part sun
- Soil
- Moist soil
- Size
- 1.8 ft to 2 ft tall, 1.2 ft wide
- Flowers
- Yellow, Apr to May
- Leaves
- Deciduous
- Roots
- Spreading rhizomes or runners
- Kind
- Wildflower
At its grown size
in flowerfruit or seedfall colorbare for winter
What it feeds
- Bees
- 4 kinds of native bees
- On its flowers
- Mining bee (Andrena dunningi), Long-horned bee (Epimelissodes comptus), Cuckoo bee (Triepeolus remigatus), Mining bee (Andrena bradleyi)
Grows well with
White Wood-aster
Heartleaf Aster
Wild Blue Phlox
False Solomon's-seal
Mapleleaf Viburnum
Creeping Phlox
New York Fern
Christmas FernFacts from the Quercus record for Uvularia grandiflora.